Berthe Dubail

Berthe Dubail (1911-1984) born in Leval-Trahégnies near Binche was a Belgian painter.

Biography

Berthe Dubail studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Mons, and at the workshop of La Cambre in Brussels dedicated to monumental painting, she further worked in Paris, at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in the free workshops.
In parallel to her artistic research, she became a professor in Mons and then in Brussels, and developed a new method of teaching that awakened and respected the spontaneity and spirit of discovery of the student. After an early expressionist and figurative period from 1945 to 1956, she turned to a more abstract style.[1][2]

Collections

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium[3]
Museum of Fine Arts, Charleroi[4]
Mu.ZEE, in Ostend

Honors

Order of Leopold II, 1956,
Order of the Crown (Belgium), 1979,
A street is named after the artist in Leval-Trahegnies[5]

Bibliography

De Heusch, S. Goyens; Berthe Dubail, Catalogue Raisonné de L'Œuvre de l'artiste[6]
Serge Goyens de Heusch; Philippe Roberts-Jones; Fondation pour l'art belge contemporain (Brussels), Berthe Dubail, 1991[7]

References

Benezit Dictionary of Artists
(fr) Berthe Dubail in "Dictionnaire des peintres Belges"
fine-arts-museum.be
berthedubail, BD-1981-814-NL.html
realo.be.
antiqbook.be
WorldCat